To validate a partitioned external table, see Validate External Partitioned Data. This procedure includes a parameter that lets you specify a specific partition to validate.

To validate a hybrid partitioned table, see Validate Hybrid Partitioned Data. This procedure includes a parameter that lets you specify a specific partition to validate.

Before validating an external table you need to create the external table. To create an external table use the procedure for your table type, either DBMS_CLOUD.CREATE_EXTERNAL_TABLE. For example:

BEGIN
  DBMS_CLOUD.VALIDATE_EXTERNAL_TABLE (
    table_name => 'CHANNELS_EXT' );
END;
/

This procedure scans your source files and validates them using the format options specified when you create the external table.

The validate operation, by default, scans all the rows in your source files and stops when a row is rejected. If you want to validate only a subset of the rows, use the rowcount parameter. When the rowcount parameter is set the validate operation scans rows and stops either when a row is rejected or when the specified number of rows are validated without errors.

For example, the following validate operation scans 100 rows and stops when a row is rejected or when 100 rows are validated without errors:

BEGIN 
  DBMS_CLOUD.VALIDATE_EXTERNAL_TABLE (
     table_name => 'CHANNELS_EXT',
     rowcount => 100 ); 
END; 
/

If you do not want the validate to stop when a row is rejected and you want to see all rejected rows, set the stop_on_error parameter to FALSE. In this case VALIDATE_EXTERNAL_TABLE scans all rows and reports all rejected rows.

If you want to validate only a subset of rows use the rowcount parameter. When rowcount is set and stop_on_error is set to FALSE, the validate operation scans rows and stops either when the specified number of rows are rejected or when the specified number of rows are validated without errors. For example, the following example scans 100 rows and stops when 100 rows are rejected or when 100 rows are validated without errors:

BEGIN 
  DBMS_CLOUD.VALIDATE_EXTERNAL_TABLE (
     table_name => 'CHANNELS_EXT',
     rowcount => 100 
     stop_on_error => FALSE );
END; 
/

See VALIDATE_EXTERNAL_TABLE Procedure for detailed information about DBMS_CLOUD.VALIDATE_EXTERNAL_TABLE parameters.

See View Logs for Data Validation to see the results of validate operations in the tables dba_load_operations and user_load_operations.